Virginia Erica Torrie

Virginia Torrie is a lawyer and legal scholar with expertise in banking, financial regulation and insolvency law. Her work brings together legal practice, scholarship, public policy and institutional leadership.

Through Torrie Law, she provides legal advice on questions involving financial institutions, insolvency and restructuring, and the legislative and constitutional frameworks governing Canada’s financial system. Her experience is particularly relevant where a question requires a close understanding of how different legal and regulatory frameworks interact.

Virginia advises on banking and financial institutions law, insolvency and restructuring, and questions involving the interaction of federal and provincial legal and regulatory regimes. Within these areas, her work includes questions governed by specialized statutory frameworks and matters in which banking, insolvency, debtor-creditor law, regulation or public policy intersect.

She has appeared before parliamentary committees on proposed reforms affecting banking, insolvency and the financial sector, and her work has included explaining the legal, regulatory and policy implications of legislative change.

Virginia was a tenured law professor and Associate Dean at the University of Manitoba.

Her scholarship focuses on banking and insolvency law, financial regulation and Canadian federalism. She has published extensively in these fields and is an author of the Annotated Bank Act, a leading reference on Canada’s federal banking legislation.